US4313122A - Open cavity radiating source excited by a dipole - Google Patents

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US4313122A
US4313122A US06/116,549 US11654980A US4313122A US 4313122 A US4313122 A US 4313122A US 11654980 A US11654980 A US 11654980A US 4313122 A US4313122 A US 4313122A
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    • H01Q13/00—Waveguide horns or mouths; Slot antennas; Leaky-waveguide antennas; Equivalent structures causing radiation along the transmission path of a guided wave
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  • Our present invention relates to a radiating source with an open cavity excited by a dipole.
  • This source operates preferably in the microwave frequency range and can be used as a primary source or as a radiating element of an antenna array.
  • sources comprising open cavities of revolution are particularly favored.
  • Such a source having a cylindrical open cavity, is formed by a radiating dipole placed inside a cylindrical metal base of circular cross-section. Because of the excitation phenomena of certain modes and of reflection in the cavity, the radiation diagram of such a source is formed by concentric isolevel circles up to a reduction in gain of 10 dB, beyond which the circles give way to concentric ellipses. This defect of symmetry of the radiation diagram in relation to the direction of propagation limits the bandwidth of useful frequencies.
  • the object of our invention is to increase the useful bandwidth of a radiating source of the type referred to, having a radiation diagram with increased directivity and obviating the dissymmetry of prior structures.
  • a microwave radiator whose generally cup-shaped cavity has an open end bounded by an edge with two diametrically opposite axial projections that are bisected by a plane which includes the axis of the cylindrical wall and is perpendicular to a diametrically extending dipole inside the cavity.
  • We may provide the cavity with a dielectric radome rising from its open end with progressively decreasing diameter and wall thickness.
  • the edge forming the cavity rim lies in two intersecting oblique planes of a dihedral which are symmetrical about the axial plane bisecting the projections, the latter being cusps defined by the intersection of the two oblique planes.
  • a plurality of such radiators may be disposed in a circularly symmetrical array, with their dipoles parallel to one another, to form an antenna of high directivity.
  • FIG. 1 is a perspective view of a radiating source of the prior art
  • FIGS. 2 and 3 are similar views of radiating sources in accordance with the invention.
  • FIGS. 4, 5 and 6 are perspective views, with parts cut away, of three radiating sources according to our invention each equipped with a cover or radome;
  • FIG. 7 is a perspective view of yet a further embodiment of our invention.
  • FIG. 8 is a perspective view of an antenna array formed from radiating sources corresponding to the embodiment of FIG. 2.
  • FIG. 1 shows an open-cavity radiating source 1 of the prior art, made from metal and cylindrical in form, excited by a quarter-wave dipole 2 built on a printed circuit 3, the unit being connected to a conventional supply system 5.
  • FIG. 2 shows a view, from the radiation-emitting side, of a radiating source 1A in accordance with the invention.
  • Our improved radiator 1A comprises a cylindrical metal cavity open on the emission side.
  • the cavity opening is bounded by an edge 22 defined by the intersection of its cylindrical wall with a dihedral, i.e. with two oblique planes which include an acute angle with each other and are symmetrical about an axial plane of the cavity normal to another axial plane containing the two stems 4 of dipole 2; the bicuspid edge or rim 22 has a pair of diametrically opposite cusps 10 whose flanks converge at that acute angle.
  • the stems 4 of radiating dipole 2 are obtained by photo-etching on a dielectric wafer constituting the printed circuit 3.
  • a cylindrical dielectric reinforcing ring 7 is disposed inside the cylindrical cavity wall and is spaced from its rim 22.
  • two slots 8 traversed by screws 11 are provided in the closed bottom 9 of the cup-shaped cavity. As shown, edge 22 has low points in line with dipole 2.
  • the impedance of the cavity is matched to the impedance of the air, thus permitting substantially the entire energy to be radiated outward.
  • FIG. 3 shows another embodiment of our invention, comprising a radiator 1B provided with a conventional half-wave or full-wave radiating dipole 6.
  • the described structure brings about a widening of the operating band of the radiating source.
  • This widening is obtained, on the one hand, by means of an improvement in the symmetry of the radiation diagram in relation to the direction of propagation and, on the other hand, by an increase in the directivity of this diagram.
  • the symmetry of the radiation diagram of the source is improved by the opening of the cavity with bicuspid rim.
  • the increase in directivity is obtained by adding a hollow dielectric cover or radome above the opening of the cavity.
  • FIG. 4 shows, with parts cut away, such a radome-covered source 1C.
  • the radiator proper is shrouded by a hollow frustoconical cover 12 of dielectric material converging at an acute vertex angle in the direction of propagation of the emitted radiation, the cover or radome matingly engaging the cusps or projections 10.
  • the thickness of the cover wall decreases in this same direction of propagation.
  • the cavity is supplied along its axis of symmetry by means of a coaxial line 13.
  • the matching of the cavity to supply line 13 is provided by means of a quarter-wave transformer and balancer formed by a quarter-wave coaxial line 14 on the outer conductor which has two portions 16 bare of metallization.
  • the bare portions 16, symmetrical in relation to the axis of the cavity, are separated by a plane normal to the axial plane which includes the stems 4 of the dipole deposited by photo-etching on wafer 3.
  • the central conductor 17 of the coaxial line is a metal wire sheathed with a dielectric 18.
  • a low-impedance ring not shown in the Figure may be placed against the external wall of the coaxial line.
  • FIG. 5 is a view, similar to that of FIG. 4, of another radiating source 1D in accordance with our invention having a metallized dielectric cylindrical base 19.
  • the metallic layer 21 overlying the dielectric body of base 19 is produced by photo-etching and also surrounds a cylindrical lower part of cover 12 interfitted with the base by means of a tongue-and-groove joint 20.
  • the stems 4 of the dipole are deposited by photo-etching on the dielectric base 19.
  • This embodiment of our invention with a metallized dielectric base has the advantage of being less expensive, especially for the construction of a large number of radiators.
  • the electromagnetic performances are the same as with a radiator having an all-metal cavity wall.
  • FIG. 6 shows yet another embodiment of our invention comprising a radiating source 1E with a hollow dielectric cover 15 of stepped configuration made from cylindrical coaxial sections of decreasing diameters in the propagation direction of the emitted radiation. These sections differ in height and their wall thickness also decreases in the propagation direction.
  • FIG. 7 shows yet another embodiment of the invention, comprising a radiator 1F whose open cavity has two symmetrical opposite teeth 110 at a diameter perpendicular to stems 4 of dipole 2.
  • the cavity of radiator 1F may be made entirely from metal or from a metallized dielectric as described above with reference to FIG. 5.
  • the cavity edge 122 lies in a single plane perpendicular to the axis.
  • the average dimensions are the following: diameter of the cavity between 1 and 3 wavelengths ⁇ depending on the type of dipole used; height above the base equal to half a wavelength; optimum height of the cusps equal to ⁇ /5.
  • the width of the projections is ⁇ /2 and their height is ⁇ /10.
  • the dimensions are similar to those given above.
  • An interesting application of this type of radiating source is its use in antenna arrays, particularly circularly symmetrical groupings.
  • An increase in the directivity of an antenna array is obtained by increasing the individual directivity of its constituent elementary sources.
  • the radiation diagram of the antenna array is obtained by multiplying the radiation diagram of an elementary source of the array by the array function.
  • FIG. 8 shows schematically one example of such an antenna array whose elementary sources are of the type shown at 1A in FIG. 2. They are disposed in a circle on a metallic support 23. All the dipoles 2 are oriented in the same direction which is that of the polarization of the antenna.

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